Events on Sunday, November 25

<I>Lawrence of Arabia</i> (1962)

Film

Lawrence of Arabia

Sunday 11/25 @ Aero Theatre

David Lean's Super Panavision 70 classic has long been praised for its vaulted vision and star Peter O'Toole's tortured depiction of... 

California String Quartet

Music: Classical

California String Quartet

Sunday 11/25 @ Bing Theater

Boasting a Bulgarian violinist, a cellist from the former Soviet Union, and two Americans, the California String Quartet's international profile is... 

Ongoing Events

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Sunday 11/25 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library

Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —... 

<I>A Very Grand Guignol Christmas</i>

Theatre

A Very Grand Guignol Christmas

Sunday 11/25 @ Art/Works Theatre

Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Sunday 11/25 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 11/25 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Sunday 11/25 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California... 

Los Angeles Physical Theatre Festival

Theatre

LA Physical Theatre Festival

Sunday 11/25 @ Art/Works Theatre

Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre.... 

<I>La Bohème</i>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Sunday 11/25 @ Los Angeles Opera

Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its... 

<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>

Art

Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier

Sunday 11/25 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman... 

<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>

Art

Soundwaves

Sunday 11/25 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla

Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 11/25 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<i>Darfur Now</i>

Film: Documentary

Darfur Now

Sunday 11/25 @ Various locations

It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many... 

<i>Hair</i>

Theatre

Hair

Sunday 11/25 @ The MET Theatre

Hair's original 1967 production was way ahead of its time, masterfully exploring the sexual revolution, mind-expanding drugs, and opposition to the... 

Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>

Art

Sandow Birk

Sunday 11/25 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach

Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,... 

Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin

Art

Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin

Sunday 11/25 @ Applegate Gallery

Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Sunday 11/25 @ Materials & Applications

Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore... 

<i>Cry-Baby</i>

Theatre

Cry-Baby

Sunday 11/25 @ La Jolla Playhouse

We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary... 

<i>The Red Balloon</i> (1956) and <i>White Mane</i> (1953)

Film

The Red Balloon and White Mane

Sunday 11/25 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

In the early 1950s, cinemagician Albert Lamorisse created a new French board game, The Conquest of the World — or, for... 

Barry McGee: <i>Advanced Mature Work</i>

Art

Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work

Sunday 11/25 @ REDCAT

Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 11/25 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Sunday 11/25 @ Natural History Museum

Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 11/25 @ Various locations

An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... 

<I>Grand Delusion</i>

Theatre

Grand Delusion

Sunday 11/25 @ The Lost Studio

Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile... 

Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva

Art

Iva Gueorguieva

Sunday 11/25 @ Pomona College Museum of Art

Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art.... 

Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd

Art

Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd

Sunday 11/25 @ La Luz de Jesus

Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist... 

James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 11/25 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College

It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he... 

Milo Martin: <I>The Bunnies of Denham</i>

Art

Milo Martin

Sunday 11/25 @ Brickhouse Kitchen

Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so... 

<i>Steal a Pencil for Me</i>

Film: Documentary

Steal a Pencil for Me

Sunday 11/25 @ Various locations

Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration...